Listen to multiple keydowns

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ATUEx/ Create a temporary cache to remember your key strokes. An implementation of handling two keys would follow this pattern: <keydown> Clear previous time-out. Check whether the a key code has been cached or not.If yes, and valid combination: – Delete all cached key codes – Execute function for this combination else – Delete … Read more

How to disable repetitive keydown in jQuery [duplicate]

Keep track of which keys are down, and ignore keycode 39 until a keyup even clears it: var down = {}; $(document).keydown(function(event){ var keycode = (event.keyCode ? event.keyCode : event.which); if(keycode == ’39’){ if (down[’39’] == null) { // first press $(“#box”).animate({“left”: “+=30px”}, “fast”); down[’39’] = true; // record that the key’s down } } … Read more

How to trigger key combo with jQuery

jQuery normalizes modifier keys on events by setting one or more properties on the event object. So, you want to set event.ctrlKey to true, so this should work for you: e = jQuery.Event(“keydown”); e.which = 50; e.ctrlKey = true; $(“input”).trigger(e); However, as per a comment at source (linked below): You cannot easily change values in … Read more

How do I capture Keys.F1 regardless of the focused control on a form?

Yes, indeed there is. The correct way for the form to handle key events regardless of the control that currently has the input focus is to override the ProcessCmdKey method of your form class: protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData) { if (keyData == Keys.F1) { MessageBox.Show(“You pressed the F1 key”); return true; … Read more